02-18-2010, 06:45 PM
Quote:Agraes: And last no least, a friend from my group Letavia told me it is really possible to pick up a fallen javelin from the battlefield on horseback.
hock: Ok.... Now that is impressive! The Picts a good comparison for thr Britons? I never would have thought. And while that might have been true at the time of Caterath was it true in the late 5th-early 6th centuries ? Also, and I might be wrong about this, don't Picts prefer to go into battle with minimal armour or even clothing? as far as I know the only Romanised parts of Pictish combat were the missile weapons like the crossbow. And what I found interesting is that the Saxons -who are supposed to cream the British cavalry- are so terrified that they will fight hand-to-hand that they run behind their Frankish cousins before the first set of javelins even made contact. Obviously they could fight hand-to-hand if they wanted to but were they feared enough to have superior infantry be terrified of a missile exchange? Also if they fought hand-to-hand would they prefer the sword or the spear? Carvettia,
No matter where we go, no matter how fast we run, the Fell pony always seems to follow us. I'm starting to think that the Cumbrian tradition is right and that Fell ponies were used as the official horse of Sub-Roman British cavalry.
Nicholas
